RIO + 20 All our energy for Brazil

corporate social
responsibility

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CONTENTS
3 All our energy for Brazil
4 io+20: our commitment for a greener economy
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and sustainable energy access for all
6 GDF SUEZ in Brazil

GDF SUEZ: partnering Brazilians in their daily lives
10 Beyond Business
13 ractebel Energia, GDF SUEZ Group, an ecologically social
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responsible company
16 Leme Engenharia: helping needy populations
17 egrémont, with Arca do Saber in the heart
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of a Brazilian favela

GDF SUEZ Foundation in Brazil
20 The 2011 projects
22 estival Encantado, a showcase for commitments
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made by the GDF Suez Corporate Foundation in Brazil
23 wo Brazilian employees rewarded
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in GDF SUEZ Foundation’s first call for projects

All our energy for Brazil | GDF SUEZ
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All our energy for
Brazil
 Twenty years after the first “Earth Summit”
organized at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, once again Brazil is
hosting the “Rio+20” Conference, which brings together
top national authorities around environmental issues. This
summit is an opportunity to renew the global political
commitment to sustainable development and to draw up an
inventory of measures already in place up to the present.
The focus of discussions is on the deployment of a
green economy fostering sustainable development and the
eradication of poverty. These topics are fully incorporated
into GDF SUEZ development strategy – its presence at the
Rio+20 Conference provides the chance to promote its
activities in favor of green economy, access to energy, the
The Group optimization of natural resources, and urban development.
always aims to As the leading global utility, GDF SUEZ is actively
act in a socially participating in the mobilization taking place around this
responsible summit, which deals with all topics related to its activity.
This is also an opportunity for the Group to reaffirm its
manner as a
intention to support that country dear to its heart, in its
corporate citizen economic, social and environmental expansion.
actively involved Brazil is particularly illustrative of the industrial, human
in the life of local and civic commitment made by GDF SUEZ and its
communities. subsidiaries, which follow an active policy of corporate
Gérard Mestrallet patronage and partnerships on the ground in all countries
chairman chief where they operate, consistent with their corporate values.
executive officer
Whether it concerns social initiatives, environmental
projects, cultural sponsorship or partnerships with the
world of sport, the Group’s goal is always to act as a
corporate citizen that is socially responsible and firmly
integrated in local communities.
From Ceará to Piauí, Goiás, São Paulo and Rio Grande
do Sul, GDF SUEZ and its energy and environment
subsidiaries are present in a large part of the Brazilian
territory. At every facility, a social and environmental action
plan is carried out in partnership with local associations
and structures. Rio+20 is the opportunity to recall the
importance of Brazil to the Group and promote the
activities it is carrying out in the country in the fields
of corporate patronage and civic involvement.

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Cana Brava hydro
power plant

Rio+20: our commitment for a greener
economy and sustainable energy access for all
environmental and economic sustainability
promoted by its operations worldwide.
2012 has been called the year for
sustainable energy access for all by the United
Nations. It is also the anniversary year of the
Earth Summit at Rio, twenty years ago, when
 GDF SUEZ develops its businesses sustainable development was put on top
around a model based on responsible of the international agenda. We have made
growth to take up today’s major energy and significant progress since then, but much
environmental challenges: meeting energy remains to be done, both in greening our
needs, ensuring the security of supply, fighting economies and pursuing efforts in reducing
against climate change and maximizing poverty. GDF SUEZ is deeply involved in these
the use of resources. The Group provides challenges and is aligned with the major goals
highly efficient and innovative solutions to of the forthcoming United Nations sustainable
individuals, cities and businesses by using development conference, Rio+20, of building
cutting-edge technology and relying a greener and more responsible economy
on diversified gas supply sources, flexible and achieving better access to sustainable
and low‐emission power generation as well energy for poor populations, while satisfying its
as unique expertise in four key sectors: shareholders as a sustainable company from
liquefied natural gas, energy efficiency an economic standpoint.
services, independent power production and
environmental services. Innovative solutions
GDF SUEZ operates in over 150 countries, for energy efficiency
employing 219,000 people worldwide. The
Group is listed on the Brussels, Luxembourg  GDF SUEZ, we have been active
At
and Paris stock exchanges and in the main as a sustainable group for many years.
international stock markets. GDF SUEZ We have developed a substantial renewable
is the No. 1 independent power producer energy capacity, both in Europe and abroad.
in the world, with an installed capacity of Additionally, energy efficiency is the main
117.3 GW and 14.8 GW under construction, market of one of our six business lines
and is the second global supplier of and is also on top of the agenda for the
environmental services. other five. Our research and development
In a world where about one billion people teams work on the deployment of concrete
do not have access to drinking water, 2.5 solutions in smart grids, CCS and alternative
billion have no access to basic sanitation energy sources. Our teams design
and more than 1.5 billion to electric power, innovative solutions for the smart city and
GDF SUEZ, as a leading company in these for the companies of tomorrow, integrating
sectors, knows the large responsibility it has in sustainable development at the core of
providing these services to millions of people, our commercial offers and our dialogue
always with great concern to the social, with stakeholders.

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Beberibe wind
power plant

Sustainable energy access for all the Wave Power Plant Program. The Wave

100%
Power Plant is already in test in the North
 Group has developed a special
The of Brazil and consists of floating sets able
program aiming at promoting such social to generate electric energy from sea waves,
of GDF SUEZ´s HPPs are the first prototype of this kind of technology
business initiatives in the field of sustainable
certified with ISO 9001 in Latin America.
and ISO 14001. energy access for all. Named “GDF SUEZ
Rassembleurs d’Energies” [Energy Gatherers],
this initiative provides technical and financial GDF SUEZ sustainability
support for projects that promote access principles for the development,
to sustainable energy for disadvantaged implementation and operation
populations throughout the world. The Group’s of hydropower plants in Brazil
aim is to capitalize on this dynamic to foster
economic and social development of isolated  GDF SUEZ imposes very high
settlements and regions and reduce energy standards for its HPPs in Brazil. Since 2006,
poverty for low-income customers. 100% of GDF SUEZ´s HPPs are certified
with ISO 9001 (OM quality) and ISO 14001
Incentives to renewable resources (environmental management). Estreito and São
Salvador, two HPPs of GDF SUEZ in Brazil,
 GDF SUEZ has developed a were also certified in 2006 by Bureau Veritas
substantial renewable energy capacity in the (BVQI), an international group specialized in
countries where it is installed. For instance, in the inspection, analysis, audit and certification
Brazil, 84% of our installed capacity comes of products, infrastructure and management
from clean, renewable and low GHG emission systems, who officially stated the quality of
sources. GDF SUEZ is the largest private the social environmental programs under
power producer in the country, managing and implementation for the population affected
ISE comprises companies operating 8,806 MW of installed capacity in by the reservoirs of the projects. BVQI was
with a recognized commitment 22 power plants, mostly hydro power plants. also hired to perform a series of socio-
to social responsibility and Two other hydro power plants are under environmental and sustainability audits on
business sustainability. construction and will add 4,837 MW to the Jirau HPP and, in 2010, the hydropower plant
Group’s installed capacity: Jirau HPP (3,750 was also granted with the Statement of Legal
MW; 50.01% ownership of GDF SUEZ) and Compliance and Social and Environmental
Estreito HPP (1,087 MW; 40.07% ownership Responsibility Certification, issued by BVQI.
of GDF SUEZ). Brazil has a unique model of Additionally, GDF SUEZ has a seat at
energy production, with 70% of its installed the Board of Directors of the International
capacity originating from hydropower, and only Hydropower Association (IHA), created
about 25% of the country’s hydro capacity under the auspices of the UNESCO in 1995,
has been implemented so far. The Group is to continuously improve the standards of the
therefore aligned with this energy generating development, implementation and operation
complex, combining good opportunities with of hydropower plants. GDF SUEZ actively
sustainable development. participated in the creation of the Hydropower
Besides hydropower, GDF SUEZ also Sustainability Assessment Protocol from
focuses on other renewable energy sources the IHA. This clearly demonstrates a true
in Brazil. The Group has two biomass commitment to responsible development,
thermoelectric plants and two wind power going far beyond the rigor of legal compliance.
plants. Five wind power plants are now under Jirau HPP will start an official assessment
construction, representing an increase of 145.4 using the Protocol shortly.
MW of renewable energy to its generating Tractebel Energia, GDF SUEZ’s subsidiary
complex. The Group also invests in Research responsible for the operation of its plants in
and Development programs related to Brazil, has been part of the Brazilian Stock
renewable energy, such as the Photovoltaic Exchange’s Corporate Sustainability Index
Solar Energy Program, which consists of the (ISE) since 2006, which consists of companies
installation of eight measuring modules with with a recognized commitment to social
different technologies throughout Brazil, and responsibility and business sustainability. 

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Machadinho and Jirau hydro power plants
and Pedra do Sal wind power plant

GDF SUEZ in Brazil
GDF SUEZ has a strong presence in Brazil. With operations for more than
50 years now, the Group is the first private energy producer in the country,
responsible for 7% of its total installed capacity.

 GDF SUEZ develops four main activities should develop about 4,500 MW of installed
in Brazil: capacity each year. In this context, GDF SUEZ
pursues a profitable and lasting development
Production and Sale of Power track record in the country through new
In 1998, the Brazilian government decided hydropower projects and other alternative
to privatize Gerasul, its power generator renewable and clean sources such as biomass
in southern Brazil. Bought by GDF SUEZ, and wind power.
Gerasul was renamed Tractebel Energia.
Nowadays, Tractebel Energia manages for Hydro
GDF SUEZ the production and sale of energy Most of the installed capacity of GDF SUEZ
in the Brazilian market. Through its 68.7% in Brazil comes from hydropower. The Group
holding in Tractebel Energia, GDF SUEZ is operates in the country 11 hydropower plants
today the first private energy producer in the with a total installed capacity of 6,250 MW.
country, operating an installed capacity of Two other hydropower plants are under
8.806 MW with 22 plants throughout Brazil, construction and will add 4,837 MW to the
of which 84% comes from renewable sources. Group’s installed capacity:
The Group has more than 100 industrial • Jirau (3,750 MW): the most important
customers and a staff of about 1,700 people. infrastructure project in construction in the
country. In May 2008, a consortium led by
A strategy of dynamic growth, notably in GDF SUEZ won a 35 years concession
the green economy to build and explore the Jirau HPP, in the
With an expected growth in the energy Madeira River, in the state of Rondônia.
demand of 5% per year until 2015, Brazil The construction started in November 2008.

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Osório hydro
power plant

The plant is expected to start operating in Water Treatment
2013 and to be in full operation in 2015. Controlled by SUEZ Environnement,
• Estreito (1,087 MW): In 2002, GDF SUEZ Degrémont has among its main activities the
won a 35-years concession to build the production of drinking water from groundwater
Estreito HPP, in the Tocantins River, between or surface water, the desalination of seawater
the states of Maranhão and Tocantins. The and the treatment of sewage and sludge.
construction started in 2007. The plant is Degrémont was the first company of
already in commercial operation and will be GDF SUEZ to be implemented in Brazil,
officially inaugurated in the second halfof 2012. in 1957. With headquarters in São Paulo,
the company is responsible for the projection,
Biomass construction, financing and operation of water
In partnership with Açucar Guarani, the third treatment plants, as well as the transfer
largest sugar cane producer in Brazil, Tractebel of technology from abroad to Brazil.
Energia owns and operates a thermal plant of

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33 MW (Andrade) using the biomass of sugar
cane, in the State of São Paulo. The Company INEO is a leading actor in electrical
also owns and operates a biomass plant using engineering, information and communications
hydro power plants wood waste, Lages (28 MW), in the State of systems and related services. The Company
operated by GDF SUEZ
Santa Catarina. engages in design and maintenance projects
group in Brazil.
relating to industrial and tertiary electrical
Wind installations, energy networks, public
GDF SUEZ also invests in wind power lighting, transport and telecommunications
plants in the Northeast of Brazil, where it has infrastructures, global security, energy
two wind farm plants, Beberibe, in the State production, information systems and
of Ceará (26 MW) and Pedra do Sal in Piauí outsourcing.
(18 MW), and where five other plants are now INEO is part of GDF SUEZ Energy Services,
under construction (145.4 MW). one of the leading energy-specialists in
the world, with a staff of 76,000 people.
Project Engineering and Study The Company is based in Paris, France.
The Group also has an important position In Brazil, INEO concluded its acquisition
in the engineering sector in Brazil. Tractebel process of the company TELCA2000 on
Engineering is the third largest hydro and December 2011. With headquarters in Rio de
thermal engineering company and the second Janeiro, TELCA2000 was created 10 years ago
largest company in electrical equipment in the and counts today more than 80 employees. As
country, where it has a staff of more than 700 an integrator of security and communications
employees. The Company is systematically systems, it now makes more than half of
consulted by the Group to evaluate potential its revenues in the oil gas market. With
sites for project development. TELCA2000, INEO aims to position itself as
In Brazil, Tractebel Engineering is the benchmark for integrating new information
represented by Leme Engenharia, its and communications technologies and to
subsidiary, one of the main engineering promote innovative solutions with a strong local
consultancy companies in Latin America. content, particularly in the sectors of oil gas,
Leme Engenharia manages and implements aeronautics, smart cities and critical sites. 
engineering projects in the hydroelectricity,
electricity transmission systems, thermal
energy production fields and urban
infrastructure studies.

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GDF SUEZ in Brazil

São Paulo

Hydro power plants

Hydro power plants
under construction
Thermal plants

Thermal biomass plants

Wind power plants

Wind power plants
under construction
Environment
Water treatment

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gdf suez,
partnering Brazilians
in their daily lives

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The Familiar Fish Raising Associated
with Organic Agriculture Program

Beyond Business
Given the impact of its major infrastructure projects on nature and local
community life, GDF SUEZ developed a whole area of expertise in providing
social and environmental support around its projects.

 A hallmark of GDF SUEZ is the way in which it actively
engages with communities that are affected by its projects. Beyond
complying with social and environmental legislation that apply to its
activities, the Group provides actual material and human support to the
populations with which it interacts.
In Brazil, a country that currently uses only about 25% of its
enormous hydroelectric resources, dam construction undeniably has
an effect on the environment and on local community life. Brazil has
developed regulatory and institutional systems for protecting people
and nature, but new hydroelectric power plants are being built in
increasingly remote areas where the local people have but very little
The voluntary construction access to the government’s social infrastructures. In these unassisted
of Nova Mutum Paraná
regions of the country, the hydropower plants are vectors of social,
environmental and economic development, with a role that goes
beyond energy generation.
In Jirau hydro power plant for instance, in the State of Rondônia,
33 socio-economic and physic-biotic programs determined by the
Brazilian Environmental Agency IBAMA are being implemented
and listed in the environmental license, with a cost of 520 million
Euros. Beyond these mandatory programs, the Group also develops
several voluntary social programs in the region, many with reputable

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The voluntary construction
of Nova Mutum Paraná

international NGOs, such as INMED and economic and sanitary indexes below the
Instituto Pro Natura. Brazilian average, were relocated to the new
The voluntary construction of Nova Mutum town built by the project. Nova Mutum Paraná
Paraná provides a particularly compelling is a complete city with 1,600 houses and
example of this policy. The families from the all facilities: streets, housing, schools, bus
very poor Mutum Paraná community, whose station, police station, town hall, stores and
village was located on the perimeter of the infrastructures, enabling families to have
reservoir of Jirau HPP, a poor region with a better quality of life.

Programs to create economic
development in the region
The programs, in partnership with the French-Brazilian NGO Instituto
Pro Natura, aim to identify and implement self-sustainable micro
economies for the population around the reservoir of Jirau HPP.

The Familiar Fish Raising
Associated with Organic
Agriculture Program

A first project has been approved in
2010 and is now under test – “The Familiar
Fish Raising Associated with Organic
Agriculture Program”, already benefiting 50
families with professional qualification and
economic independence.
Similarly, one of the key concerns of
GDF SUEZ Brasil in building the Estreito
Hydro Power Plant, in the state of Tocantins
is to preserve the local culture and encourage
sustainable development in the region.
All the social and environmental programs
Rural producer being carried out to manage the impact
of the Estreito dam represent a total budget
of 130 million Euros. These programs cover
a broad range of initiatives. Support is being
provided, for instance, to Palmatuba Babaçu
Coconut Breakers, which use the shell of
babaçu coconuts to produce craft objects
such as braids, earrings, key fobs, towel
hangers, and other items.

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LIF award

Healthy Children, Healthy Future

 Another voluntary work developed incidence in the group also decreased
by GDF SUEZ Brasil in the region is the social significantly, from 55.57% to 4.31%.
program “Healthy Children, Healthy Future”, The program was recognized on May 2012
sponsored by the GDF SUEZ Foundation by the France-Brazil Chamber of Commerce
and implemented by the NGO Inmed in the with the granting of the XI LIF Sustainability
12 municipalities around the reservoir of Award, which aims to encourage companies
Estreito HPP. The program aims to improve to adopt responsible practices and sustainable
the low health indexes of the children of these management. The award was given during
municipalities, where the population doesn’t the IV Sustainability Forum of the Chamber
have access to basic services. The region has, of Commerce, event organized by the French
for instance, the largest malnutrition index companies in Brazil to discuss the main
among children in the country, around 30%, subjects around the Rio +20 Summit.
the double of the national average. The Program “Healthy Children, Healthy
The program consists of treating intestinal Future” is currently being set up in the state
parasites and nutritional deficiencies as well as of Rondônia, in Porto Velho, where Jirau HPP
teaching the children and their family healthier is being built. More than 5,000 children from 11
habits. Its main goal is to help improve public schools are already benefiting from it. 
people’s health and living standards by using
children as relays for raising the consciousness
of their families and communities about health
care, personal hygiene, household waste
collection and water management. In this way,
children are becoming “agents of change”.
Healthy Children, Healthy The Program also involves the production of
Future is a project school gardens and a better access to drinking
supported by water through a method of solar filtration of
the water. Since 2009, 15 thousand children at
school age were already benefiting from better
health indexes. The index of anemic children
fell from 53.4% to 7.9%. The parasitological

Healthy Children, Healthy Future program

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Visit to the plants

Tractebel Energia, GDF SUEZ Group,
an ecologically social responsible company
 Tractebel Energia, a GDF SUEZ subsidiary, is the country’s
leading private generator of electricity, responsible for 7% of the power
generation market in Brazil. Headquartered in Florianópolis, Santa
Catarina, Tractebel Engenharia operates 22 power plants in the country,
of which more than 80% are hydropower. The Company has shown
a remarkable growth in its electricity generation capacity, growing from
3,719 MW in 1998 to 6,908 MW in 2011.
With approximately 1,000 employees and more than 100 industrial
customers, Tractebel Energia’s HPPs are certified with ISO 9001 (OM
quality) and ISO 14001 (environmental management). Additionally,
Tractebel Energia has been part of the Brazilian Stock Exchange’s
Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) since 2006, which comprises
companies with a recognized commitment to social responsibility
and business sustainability.
Tractebel Energia creates initiatives that protect the environment
and foster good relations with local governments and communities.
The company’s social initiatives focus on improving the quality of life
of children living in the poor neighborhoods surrounding its production
facilities and headquarters. Tractebel Energia initiates and supports
activities related, among other things, to the education, wellbeing and
legal rights of children and teenagers. It also encourages job creation
and income for families, fights child labor and promotes cultural and
sports activities.
By sponsoring local associations, municipal governments and public
agencies, Tractebel Energia actively works to protect the environment in
regions where it develops its activities, in particular restoring denuded
and eroded areas through reforestation.

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Planting of seedlings

Projects supported by Tractebel Energia

Project of Spring Preservation Planting of seedlings

 Tractebel Energia develops  Another initiative is the planting, directly or
an environmental program focused on by the donation of seedlings, of more than 300
environmental education, reforestation of thousand trees a year. In 2011, 386,643 units of
degraded areas, ecological awareness and seedlings were planted through this intiative.
rationalization of natural resources. In the
area around the Salto Santiago Hydro Power
Plant for instance, a program developed in Tractebel Center for Culture and Sustainability
partnership with the NGO Casa Familiar Rural, Energia creates Entre Rios do Sul
is being implemented to preserve 300 springs,
improving the water quality of the region and
initiatives that  Tractebel Energia built the Center
improving the wellbeing of the 300 families who protect the for Culture and Sustainability “Entre Rios do
live there. Programs of spring preservation are Sul”, focused on preserving the local culture.
environment
also being implemented in other regions, such Inaugurated in July 2011, the Center has
as Jorge Lacerda Thermo Power Complex and, and foster 1,075 square feet and consists of a
in partnership with the Consorcium Machadinho good relations multipurpose auditorium, library and
and the Alcoa Institute, in the region of classrooms. The project presents a series
Machadinho Hydro Power Plant. with local of innovations related to the practice of
governments and corporate social responsibility and has
improved the access to culture in the region.
Visits to the plants communities. Since the beginning of its activities, the Center
received about 17 thousand people – an
 Tractebel Energia also develops average of 2,420 visitors per month. Access
programs of environmental education and to the only theater and the only public library
visits to the plants. In 2011, 86,500 people, of the region, professional training courses,
mainly students, participated in this program. art workshops and social and digital inclusion
programs are great catalysts of the success
of the enterprise.
Involving a community in preserving Four other cultural centers are being
native species of the Brazilian Cerrado implemented by the Company: Alto Bela Vista
Cultural Center, in Santa Catarina, near Itá
 In 2009, Tractebel Energia HPP (expected to open in August 2012); Jorge
commissioned the São Salvador Hydro Lacerda Environmental Park Cultural Center,
Power Plant, in Tocantins, and the company near Jorge Lacerda thermo power complex
established 35 environmental programs for the (opening in March 2013) and Quedas do
region. One of them was the establishment Iguaçu Cultural Center, near Salto Osório HPP,
of a “forest nursery” aimed to involving the in Paraná (expected to open in August 2013).
local communities in preserving regional plant
species affected by the project, and therefore
helping to protect the vast Brazilian “Cerrado”
savanna, one of the most biologically diverse
and threatened areas of the planet.

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Saúde da criança
program

Project Guardiões

 The Program “Guardiões” supports Saúde da criança
and houses children and adolescents who program
are victims of violence, abuse and sexual
exploitation, aiming to guarantee their basic
rights. The program´s main goal is to qualify
women leaders of communities where the
indices of domestic violence are extremely
high as well as teachers from public schools,
in order to enable them to identify traces of
domestic violence and take possible action.

Young Worker Program

 This program offers to 15 to 18-year-
olds from disadvantaged families the
opportunity to have a 20-hour-per-week job.
In addition to their wages, the young workers
also receive meal vouchers and public
transportation passes. They are also covered Program Saúde da Criança
by personal accident insurance and receive
assistance for dental care. In return, they must  “Saúde da Criança” (Child Health)
do well in school. Tractebel Energia offers 49 is a social program that promotes the self-
permanent positions under this program in sufficiency of families with children at social
which 384 young people have participated risk, referred by public health units. The NGO
since it was created in 1998. “Saúde da Criança” was elected by the Global
Journal of Switzerland, as the best Brazilian
Social Organization and is in 38th position
among the hundred best world´s NGOs.
The Program’s methodology is based
on the understanding that children cannot
be discharged from hospital without first
ascertaining what conditions await them
at home. Extreme poverty and the inability
The Young Worker
program to carry on treatment are two factors that
increase the risk of children relapsing and
consequently returning to the hospitals.
The program developed and implemented
a Family Action Plan, designed to break the
vicious circle of poverty-illness-hospitalization-
discharge-rehospitalization-death. 

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Centro solidário
Felixlândia

Leme Engenharia,
helping needy populations
 LEME Engenharia is the consulting association based in Belo Horizonte.
and studies subsidiary of Tractebel Engineering, It designs, promotes and carries out social
one of the main engineering consultancy initiatives in the state of Minas Gerais.
companies in the world, with more than 100 LEME Engenharia provides the association
years of expertise in energy and infrastructure with a planning and management expert
projects. Its services cover the whole lifecycle who coordinates social programs devoted
of these projects, from feasibility studies to to children, youth, and the fight against
decommissioning. Headquartered in Brussels, malnutrition.
Belgium, and with offices in 12 countries and Associação Mineira de Reabilitação
projects in over 80, Tractebel Engineering (AMR), also based in Belo Horizonte,
employs around 3,300 people. cares for more than 400 children suffering
LEME Engenharia manages and from congenital diseases, cerebral palsy,
implements engineering projects in hydro syndromes, microcephaly, mental retardation,
Associação Mineira power, electricity transmission systems, brachial and obstetric paralysis, and other
de Reabilitação is cerebral pathologies. LEME Engenharia
thermal energy production fields and
a project supported by
urban infrastructure studies. LEME is also provides financial support for physical and
a consultant to the nuclear sector and has neurological treatment programs for the
expanded its operations into engineering children. Recently, the company also provided
consultancy for the natural gas industry, AMR studies and designs to revamp the
renewable energy and ports and hydroways. electrical installations and is now going
In addition to its offices in Brazil (Belo to support its construction, through the
Horizonte, Brasília, Florianópolis, Rio de GDF SUEZ Foundation.
Janeiro and São Paulo), LEME has regional In January 2011, the state of Rio de
Find more of the Janeiro was hit by severe rains that caused
offices in Panama and Chile and is developing
GDF SUEZ Foundation flooding and landslides, leaving thousands
activities in other Latin American countries,
projects on page 20 of homeless people. LEME Engenharia
such as Equador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru
and Argentina. supported the reconstruction of the most
In Brazil, LEME Engenharia has been focusing affected areas providing Nova Friburgo
on the contribution to major social matters. Municipality the consulting of two geologists
Serviço Voluntário de Assistência Social who were responsible for the geological
(SERVAS) is a nonprofit social assistance risks mapping. 

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Arca do Saber

Degrémont, with “Arca do Saber”
in the heart of a Brazilian favela
 Degrémont, a subsidiary of SUEZ Environnement, is involved
in the production of drinking water from groundwater or surface water
in industrialized countries and the developing world. Its activities also
include the desalination of seawater for use either as drinking water or
in irrigation. In all cases, the water it produces is expected to meet the
regulatory standards in operation in the relevant country. The company
is also involved in the treatment of sewage and sludge, which is a
growing problem for urban areas in particular. Most wastewater is treated
for use in irrigation or in industrial cooling systems.
Degrémont estimates that 1 billion people are served by its 10,000
facilities around the world. These include 3,000 drinking water plants,
250 desalination plants and 2,500 sewage treatment plants with the
capacity to recycle 2.4 million cubic meters per day.
Degrémont is a company well known throughout the world for its
technical expertise in water treatment. The company has obtained
the Good Corporation Certification, a responsible business practice
assessment system looking at the way an organization is managed in
relation to its employees, its customers, its suppliers, its shareholders,
the environment and even its contribution to the community.
The Company employs over 4,600 people in 70 countries.
Degrémont operates in Brazil since 1957, and most of its
revenues are in the industry sector (mainly Oil, Pulp Paper) and
in the municipal market. Degrémont achieved Manaus flotation station,
which is a world reference in that field, and has actively participated
in the PPP model definition (in the states of Bahia, Pernambuco,
Espírito Santo and Rio Grande do Norte).

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Arca do Saber

In the social field, Degrémont is

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supporting the French-Brazilian
association “Arca do Saber”

 “Arca do Saber”, a French-Brazilian
NGO founded in 2001, manages an Educational
and Cultural Center in the Favela Vila Prudente,
children are attended on
in the city of São Paulo. Today it offers
Arca do Saber facilities
educational and social activities to more than
50 children and teenagers aged 7-15. It
employs about 13 people, most of them from
the Favela.
In 2005, the association also created a
handicraft workshop, where 20 mothers who Degrémont supports the association
have their children in the Cultural Center, had in several ways:
the chance to work. This activity offers them
a source of income and social recognition. • inancial support for training women who
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“Arca do Saber” is able to attend to work in the handicraft workshop.
120 children and has its own facilities, with • Buying crafts to these women production.
a coffee shop, a library, a computer center, • aking part in social activities promoted
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four classrooms, a playground and two by the association.
rooms reserved as the artisan’s studio. • onating computers to help with the
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Recently, “Arca do Saber”, supported by organization of charity fairs, for people
Degrémont Brazil, was rewarded by SUEZ who live in the Favela. 
Environnement. It benefited from a donation
of €9,959, to be invested in the “Suçuarana”
Project, which aims to prepare young people
for the market with catch-up classes, access
to library and computer room, beside
development of know-be and know-how
competences applicable to the market, avoiding
the risk of marginalization of the youngsters
and social exclusion.

Arca do Saber
rewarded by Suez
Environnement

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gdf suez Foundation
in Brazil

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Solidariedade França-
Brasil Association

The 2011 projects
 The GDF SUEZ Corporate The Solidariedade França-Brasil
Foundation supports projects that on the (SFB) Association: Program Quality
one hand cover solidarity actions in the fields education: every child’s right
of health care, education and energy for the
benefit of people in precarious situations,  This non-profit association was
and on the other hand concern actions for founded in 1986 by expatriate French citizens
the environment, protecting biodiversity and and Brazilians. It works with community
ecosystems, fighting against global warming, centers to set up solidarity actions in the fields
and developing the housing conditions of education and health care for the benefit of
of tomorrow. children, adolescents and families in Baixada
The Foundation is currently supporting three Fluminense, an extremely poor suburb of Rio
projects in Brazil – two within its “Childhood de Janeiro.
and Youth” Program and one within its “Living For some years now, SFB has expanded
Tomorrow” Program. its scope of activity by developing a teacher
training program whose goal is to improve
education quality.
The Foundation has been a Solidariedade
França-Brasil partner for more than 10 years.
Solidariedade França- Over time, it has provided assistance to SFB
Brasil Association in setting up four child daycare facilities and
two community child-development centers
located in Baixada Fluminense. Since 2008,
it has been supporting the “Quality education:
every child’s right” project, which consists of
setting up continuous educational courses
for teachers.
Today, 5,000 children and teenagers are
benefiting from SFB’s actions.

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5,000
Pró-Natura Association: Project
Super Gardens

 Founded after the Earth Summit
children and teenagers are
at Rio in 1992, Pró-Natura International is
benefiting from SFB’s actions
an NGO of Brazilian origin, located in Rio
de Janeiro with a branch office in Paris. It
specializes in innovative developments in
southern hemisphere countries and has
INMED Brazil / Healthy Children, developed an innovative strategy of linking up
Healthy Future Program programs for fighting poverty with protecting
biodiversity and fighting climate change.
 The goal of this association, The “Super Gardens” project developed by
founded in 1995, is to improve community Pró-Natura is an example of this commitment.
living standards by promoting scientific and Funded by the Foundation since 2011, the
educational activities, as well as charity work. project consists of extremely innovative out-
The association is particularly involved in the of-soil micro-vegetable gardens, adapted for
monitoring and prevention of intestinal parasites towns and cities, especially for high-density
in children, as well as taking an active part in urban neighborhoods such as Rio’s favelas.
education and preventive health care. They are designed to yield all the essential
The Foundation has been supporting nutrients required to provide a more nutritious
INMED Brazil since 2009, especially for its diet to families of 10 people. It enables
“Healthy Children, Healthy Future” program. low-income families to cultivate, at home,
vegetables and various condiments that will
More information help to enhance the quality of meals, improve
on the program food diversity and have a positive impact on
on page 12 health by fighting malnutrition. The project
is implemented in the favelas of the Tijuca
National Park in Rio de Janeiro. 

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Festival Encantado, a showcase for commitments
made by the GDF Suez Corporate Foundation in Brazil

“To GDF SUEZ, the Encantado
Festival is a kind of societal
A series of
innovation laboratory, microfinance workshops
standing at the crossroads of will be held during the
festival and PlaNet Finance will
our values, our key interests pursue its commitment to the
and our skills. For our Group, community throughout the year
via its financial education project
which is deeply involved (funding and assistance to the P
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in Brazil, it represents an eco-tourism cooperative) ç
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For the Encantado
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the project, to marshal the
Festival, Pró Natura has plans
necessary means, as well as to plant super-vegetable gardens
our technical abilities and our resulting from the NGO’s innovation
on the roofs of the community’s
creativity, to breathe new life homes. Pró Natura also wishes
into the values of solidarity to sustain its relationship with the
neighboring communities by providing
that inspire our teams and a space slated to become a local
our entire Group.” community social innovation
“laboratory”. Encantado
Valérie Bernis,
vice-president of gdf suez foundation
executive vice-president, in charge of
Festival
communications and marketing In the largest urban forest on
the planet, the Vale Encantado
community will host a total of
5 Encantado Festivals – an
eco-responsible event
The before “Rio+20”
Campana
Brothers
For the Encantado
Festival, this NGO has a Since 1983, the Campana brothers
project to run workshops for have been one of the leading duos of
Fonds Locus is an NGO contemporary design. Their works propose
children and adults on environmental whose purpose is to support
issues like protecting the Tijuca forest, a new way of contemplating the objects that
all activity of general interest surround us and contribute towards changing
which is part of the UNESCO World pertaining to culture, society and
Heritage. It also intends to develop our perspectives on daily life. The influence
the environment that promotes the of the favela communities and art is strongly you are
a post-festival relationship with development of architecture serving
local schools to include similar reflected in their work. For the Festival, here
the people within the framework of Aquassistance will Humberto and Fernando offer us a chance
workshops in the school sustainable development. For the first contribute its expertise to
curriculum. to better understand this influence
Encantado Festival, Fonds Locus will run the Vale Encantado community through a photographic exhibit of
an itinerant exhibit in the streets of the to support, advise, and assist their works.
favela in order to initiate dialogue in a project to improve and
with the residents on the topic strengthen water management,
of the region’s architectural which is a key issue in local
history. development.

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Marta Jakitsch Cristiane Scholz

Two Brazilian employees rewarded
in GDF SUEZ Foundation’s first call
for projects Corporate Citizens
 In 2011, the GDF SUEZ Foundation
launched a call for projects Corporate Citizens 3rd prize from the Environment jury
with Group employees to promote their  Cristiane Scholz Faisca Cardoso,
commitments to society and voluntary for a sustainable tourism project on Capeche
associations, and to support an initiative that Island off the coast of Florianopois: constructing
corresponds to the Foundation’s two major a “green building”, installating a solar power
areas of focus for its action: solidarity and facility, and setting up a team for raising
the environment. awareness among tourists about protecting the
Two of the 29 projects of employees involved environment.
in voluntary associations that received awards Cristiane is President of the Acompeche
were Brazilian employee projects. association, founded in 1940 to protect this site
whose geology and biodiversity is exceptional.
The Energy Solidarity jury’s special
“Coup de Coeur” award
 Marta Jakitsch of Leme Engenharia
for a project to build a new electrical facility
designed by volunteer workers from Leme for
AMR (“Associaço Minera de Rehabilitaçao”
[Minera rehabilitation association]) buildings in
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
AMR is an NGO that, since 1967, has been
looking after children suffering from birth
defects, cerebral palsy and mental retardation.
Since 2008, Leme has been a partner of AMR
on a program for social and professional
Find more about integration through sport, where volunteers are
the AMR project working during their leisure time to set up an
on page 16 electrical installation.

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Drive

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